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The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students

10 best books like The Practice of Creative Writing: A Guide for Students (Heather Sellers): The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song, June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life, The Writer's Idea Book, What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction, Poet's Choice, Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read & Write Poetry, Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer

The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song
AuthorEllen Bryant Voigt
ISBN1555975313
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning....
June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint
AuthorJune Jordan
ISBN0415911680
I don't really know what to make of this book, or even how to describe it. The book grew out of the famous poetry class that June Jordan taught at Berkeley for many years, and it's something of a hodge podge. The book is essentially a compilation of materials for and by the class: student writings (both poetry...
Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
AuthorJanet Burroway
ISBN0321277368
The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e guides the novice story writer from first inspiration to final revision. A bestseller through six editions, Writing Fiction by novelists Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French explores the elements of fiction, providing...
The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life
AuthorPriscilla Long
ISBN0984242104
Suitable for both beginning and advanced writers of fiction and nonfiction, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life distills 20 years of teaching and creative thought by the well-published author Priscilla Long. The Writer's Portable Mentor helps writers understand...
The Writer's Idea Book
AuthorJack Heffron
"Where do you get your ideas?"



It's a question and a quandary that bedevils every writer. And once you've got an idea, what then? Ideas without a plan, without a purpose, are no more than pleasant thoughts.



In The Writer's Idea Book, Jack Heffron, former senior editor...
What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
AuthorAnne Bernays
ISBN0062720066
What If? is the first handbook for writers based on the idea that specific exercises are one of the most useful and provocative methods for mastering the art of writing fiction. With more than twenty-five years of experience teaching creative writing between them, Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter offer...
The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers Of/On Creative Nonfiction
AuthorRobert L. Root Jr.
ISBN0321434846
This best-selling anthology is a comprehensive and indispensable introduction to the way creative nonfiction is written today. The Fourth Genre offers the most comprehensive, teachable, and current introduction available today to the cutting-edge, evolving genre of creative nonfiction. While...
Poet's Choice
AuthorEdward Hirsch
ISBN0156032678
Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry. Poet’s Choice includes the work of more than...
Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read & Write Poetry
AuthorSage Cohen
ISBN1582975574
Writing Poetry for Everyday Life

"Poetry is just the evidence of life," says Leonard Cohen. "If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

You don't need an advanced degree to reap the rewards of a rich poetic life–writing poetry is within the reach of everyone. Poet Sage...
Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer
AuthorBret Anthony Johnston
ISBN0812975480
You already have the tools to become a gifted writer; what you need is the spark. Harvard creative writing professor and acclaimed author Bret Anthony Johnston brings you an irresistible interactive guide to the craft of narrative writing. From developing characters to building conflict, from mastering...
The Lost Origins of the Essay
AuthorJohn D'Agata
ISBN1555975321
An expansive and exhilarating world tour of innovative nonfiction writing

I think the reason we've never pinpointed the real beginning to this genre is because we've never agreed on what the genre even is. Do we read nonfiction in order to receive information, or do we read it to experience...
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
AuthorKitty Burns Florey
ISBN1933633107
Sister Bernadette's Dog Barking: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
154 pp. "Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences is a 2006 book by author Kitty Burns Florey about the history and art of sentence diagramming. Florey learned...
Telling Stories
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0393971767

As a teacher, Oates emphasizes the importance of reading widely with enthusiasm, pleasure, and purpose. Telling Stories reflects this emphasis, introducing students to a variety of models for their own writing and encouraging them to concentrate on details, revise often, make material their...
4 A.M. Breakthrough: Unconventional Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction
AuthorBrian Kiteley
ISBN1582975639
Realize All That Is Possible in Your Fiction

Writers have long turned to exercises for help with beginning—be it a new piece of fiction, a daily routine, or a serious writing life. Behind the theory of exercises is an attitude of curiosity and expectancy, a desire to ask questions of yourself...
Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
AuthorLouise DeSalvo
ISBN0807072435
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most...
You & Yours
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN1929918690
In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she’s visited in this...
Making Shapely Fiction
AuthorJerome Stern
Here is a book about the craft of writing fiction that is thoroughly useful from the first to the last page—whether the reader is a beginner, a seasoned writer, or a teacher of writing. You will see how a work takes form and shape once you grasp the principles of momentum, tension, and immediacy. "Tension,"...
The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
AuthorAlice LaPlante
ISBN0393061647
The Making of a Story is a fresh and inspiring guide to the basics of creative writing—both fiction and creative nonfiction. Its hands-on, completely accessible approach walks writers through each stage of the creative process, from the initial triggering idea to the revision of the final manuscript....
Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers
AuthorScott Norton
ISBN0226595145
Editing is a tricky business. It requires analytical flair and creative panache, the patience of a saint and the vision of a writer. Transforming a manuscript into a book that edifies, inspires, and sells? That’s the job of the developmental editor, whose desk is the first stop for many manuscripts...
Ron Carlson Writes a Story
AuthorRon Carlson
ISBN1555974775
Ron Carlson has been praised as “a master of the short story” (Booklist). In this book-length essay, he offers a full range of notes and gives rare insight into a veteran writer’s process by inviting the reader to watch over his shoulder as he creates the short story “The Governor’s Ball.”

“This...
Literature from the "Axis of Evil": Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations
AuthorAlane Mason
ISBN1595580700
Short stories and fiction excerpts from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, and other countries from whom the government would rather we didn't hear.

""Not knowing what the rest of the world is thinking and writing is both dangerous and boring.""--Alane Mason, founding editor,...
The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage Without Apostrophes!
AuthorLynne Truss
ISBN0399247068
A comanion to the best-seller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, this is punctuation play at its finest!

Just as the use of commas was hilariously demystified in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, now Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons put their talents together to do...
Wild Ink : Success Secrets to Writing and Publishing in the Young Adult Market
AuthorVictoria Hanley
What do you need to know to break in to the flourishing young adult (YA) market? With humor and a solid grounding in reality, author Victoria Hanley helps readers understand the ins and outs of the YA genre, how to stay inspired, and how to avoid common mistakes writers make in trying to reach teens. This...
The Essential Don Murray: Lessons from America's Greatest Writing Teacher
AuthorDonald M. Murray
ISBN0867096004
Lessons from America's Greatest Writing Teacher

Don Murray's mission was to demystify writing by revealing as much as possible about the habits, processes, and practices of writers. This book carries on his work and shows the evolution of his thinking by collecting his most influential...
Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in Our Schools
AuthorMilton Chen
ISBN0470615060
An educational innovator who worked at Sesame Workshop and The George Lucas Educational Foundation offers a new vision for learning As a result of constant innovation, learning is no longer limited by traditional confines and we're moving beyond students tied to their chairs, desks, and textbooks-and...
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